A Locally Trusted Organisation is the organisation chosen by your Big Local partnership to administer and account for the distribution of your funding, and/or deliver activities or services on behalf of the Big Local partnership.

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As a minimum a locally trusted organisation must be able to:

• receive and administer funding on behalf of the Big Local partnership, and in line with the Big Local plan and funding agreement

• report on the use of funding to you and to Big Local

• provide grant and partnership administration support

• have a good working relationship with you and Big Local, and with the Big Local rep

• pass our due diligence checks which includes being suitably experienced, constituted and able to keep accurate financial records of how the money is being spent

• agree and sign our funding agreement.​